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15/12/2005 13:37:07
 
 
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15/12/2005 13:28:22
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP1
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Thread ID:
01078376
Message ID:
01078389
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>Would that I could normalize it. Since I can't, I just gotta live with it.
>
>Thanks for the response.
>
>Jim

Know what you mean. I inherited a database where the bus stops for a route were in a list of fields, 1-110 in the route record. I pointed out to the boss that there is a lot of waste where there are only a few stops, or would be problems where there are more than 110. I was assured there never would be.

Later created a form for importing stops from and ASCII hierarchical text file. Prog soon crashed when it encountered a route with 135 stops. Having developed a whole new system on the old db, it came back to bite me in the nads. :-)

Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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